The 41 Artworks of media Intaglio

Omar Rayo grew up in the town of Roldanillo, a municipality in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, and began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer. He is associated with /

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In 1954, Colombian painter and printmaker Omar Rayo rejected a scholarship to study in Spain, instead embarking on a journey across South America. He traveled through the Andes and along the Amazon, learning indigenous artistic techniques and finding inspiration in the patterns and colors of vernacu...

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Omar Rayo’s early formal experiments involved covering household objects, such as scissors and kitchen appliances, with moistened paper and letting them dry. The impressions that the objects made on the paper inspired Rayo to develop a printing technique that led to his first series of intaglios. Th...

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